By rabbleTV
September 2, 2011
Protesters oppose oil tanker traffic and pipeline expansion plans in Vancouver at a rally called “No Pipelines, No Tankers, No Tar Sands” in North Burnaby on Saturday, August 27, 2011.
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Tar-sands protests go global
By Bill McKibben The Grist September 1, 2011
Protests in New Zealand
Protests against a proposed tar-sands pipeline, which have already mushroomed into the largest civil disobedience actions in America in many years, broke out across the globe today, with solidarity demonstrations at U.S. and Canadian embassies and consulates on six continents.In Durban, South Africa, visiting Secretary ... [click title to continue]
The Keystone Pipeline: Can labor and environmentalists work together?
By Mark Gruenberg
People's World
August 31 2011
WASHINGTON - Building Trades unions are backing - and transit unions opposing - the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, from the tar sands of the Canadian province of Alberta to the oil refineries of the U.S. Gulf Coast.The unions' stands come as the $7 billion project, which is estimated to create at least 20,000 construction jobs ... [click title to continue]
Ignoring Climate Change, State Department Report Concludes Keystone XL Has ‘No Significant Impacts’
The State Department issued its final environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline today, finding that it would bring “no significant impacts” on the environment – even while substantially increasing greenhouse gas emissions and crossing major aquifers and wetlands across the country.
By Stephen Lacey Climate Progress, 26/08/11 ... [click title to continue]
Taking on Tarmageddon: Trailer
Taking on Tarmageddon Campbell Road Productions has partnered with the environmental campaign groups People & Planet and the UK Tar Sands Network to produce a documentary investigating the tar sands oil extraction project in Alberta, Canada. People & Planet have selected 8 students from their network that will head off to Canada to meet with the Beaver Lake Cree first nation who live right in the middle ... [click title to continue]
Tar Sands Action in Ottawa!
JOIN US THIS FALL!On September 26th 2011 we’re planning a peaceful protest in Ottawa to say no to a toxic tar sands industry and defuse the largest carbon bomb in North America.
With people power and the time-tested tactics of civil disobedience – join thousands of people from across the country in a sit-in. Together we’ll amplify our voices and escalate the movement and stop the tar ... [click title to continue]
VIDEO: Tar Sands Action By “Gasland” Director Josh Fox
By Jenn Breckenridge
The Understory“There’s only been one tool that people have turned to in desperate times to change the world: Civil disobedience.”Director Josh Fox was nominated for an Oscar for his film Gasland, which exposed the impact of hydraulic fracturing of the earth for natural gas, also known as fracking. Today, he turns his documentarian skills towards the Alberta tar sands ... [click title to continue]
TransCanada Says Keystone Pipeline Could Be Used for Bulk Water Removals
Council of Canadians
August 16, 2011
Ottawa and Washington, D.C. — The Council of Canadians and Food & Water Watch are sounding the alarm over TransCanada’s speculation that the Keystone Pipeline could potentially be used for bulk water removals from the Ogallala aquifer.TransCanada pipelines operations director Jim Krause testified at the Nebraska state assembly earlier this year that ... [click title to continue]
Overheard: Asia’s View of Alberta, Tar Sands and Pipelines
If this insider is right, Gateway is purely a ploy and Canadians are rubes.
By Michael ByersTheTyee.ca16 August 2011"The small Canadian oil companies have been windfalls for us. They won't work with the majors. They don't trust them. And they don't know anything -- they want to export bitumen to Asia!"The East-West Center is a U.S. government-funded think tank that has been promoting cooperation with ... [click title to continue]